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NetBSD will does not install to eMMC - ronverbs - 05-14-2019
I downloaded the NetBSD Pinebook image from invisible.ca (https://www.invisible.ca/arm/) and created a microSD card, as directed using Etcher. My Pinebook (1080p) booted, but when I dd'd the image to /dev/rdl2c I got a ton of errors. Now my Pinebook does not boot, unless there is a SD card inserted.
arm64# dd if=NetBSD-evbarm-aarch64-201905120950Z-pinebook.img of=/dev/rld2c bs=1m conv=sync
dd: /dev/rld2c: Input/output error
30+0 records in
29+0 records out
30408704 bytes transferred in 11.143 secs (2728951 bytes/sec)
This generated a ton of "ld2c: error writing fsbn..." errors. When I reboot I get a blank screen.
My disklabel looks like this:
arm64# disklabel ld2
# /dev/rld2:
type: ld
disk: ld2
label: default label
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 32
sectors/cylinder: 2016
cylinders: 1040
total sectors: 2097152
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
drivedata: 0
5 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
c: 2097152 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1040*)
e: 163840 32768 MSDOS # (Cyl. 16*- 97*)
disklabel: boot block size 0
disklabel: super block size 0
disklabel: partitions c and e overlap
Any ideas on how to get NetBSD running on my brand new Pinebook?
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RE: NetBSD will does not install to eMMC - haukef - 05-15-2019
(05-14-2019, 02:53 PM)ronverbs Wrote: I downloaded the NetBSD Pinebook image from invisible.ca (https://www.invisible.ca/arm/) and created a microSD card, as directed using Etcher. My Pinebook (1080p) booted, but when I dd'd the image to /dev/rdl2c I got a ton of errors. Now my Pinebook does not boot, unless there is a SD card inserted.
arm64# dd if=NetBSD-evbarm-aarch64-201905120950Z-pinebook.img of=/dev/rld2c bs=1m conv=sync
dd: /dev/rld2c: Input/output error
30+0 records in
29+0 records out
30408704 bytes transferred in 11.143 secs (2728951 bytes/sec)
This generated a ton of "ld2c: error writing fsbn..." errors. When I reboot I get a blank screen.
The bs=1M sounds excessive... depending on the hardware, there are limitations on the block size the kernel will handle.
Oh, and leave out the conv=sync? The man page says "Pad every input block to the input buffer size." - you don't want that.
Maybe re-try with something like
dd if=NetBSD-evbarm-aarch64-201905120950Z-pinebook.img of=/dev/rld2c bs=32k
?
RE: NetBSD will does not install to eMMC - ronverbs - 05-15-2019
(05-15-2019, 08:38 AM)haukef Wrote:(05-14-2019, 02:53 PM)ronverbs Wrote: I downloaded the NetBSD Pinebook image from invisible.ca (https://www.invisible.ca/arm/) and created a microSD card, as directed using Etcher. My Pinebook (1080p) booted, but when I dd'd the image to /dev/rdl2c I got a ton of errors. Now my Pinebook does not boot, unless there is a SD card inserted.
arm64# dd if=NetBSD-evbarm-aarch64-201905120950Z-pinebook.img of=/dev/rld2c bs=1m conv=sync
dd: /dev/rld2c: Input/output error
30+0 records in
29+0 records out
30408704 bytes transferred in 11.143 secs (2728951 bytes/sec)
This generated a ton of "ld2c: error writing fsbn..." errors. When I reboot I get a blank screen.
The bs=1M sounds excessive... depending on the hardware, there are limitations on the block size the kernel will handle.
Oh, and leave out the conv=sync? The man page says "Pad every input block to the input buffer size." - you don't want that.
Maybe re-try with something like
dd if=NetBSD-evbarm-aarch64-201905120950Z-pinebook.img of=/dev/rld2c bs=32k
?
Thank you for your response. I did try that and got the same response, that is dd errors and a blank screen upon rebooting. For now I may stick with KDE Neon. At least that works. Sad though, I am such a NetBSD fan boy.
RE: NetBSD will does not install to eMMC - KC9UDX - 06-24-2020
I don't know why the error (it looks like you're writing beyond the end of the partition). But 1m does not sound excessive to me, I tend to use 8m.
And maybe I'm missing something but I think you want to write to /dev/rld2 rather than /dev/rld2c no?